There are but few commanders who properly appreciate the value of celerity.

Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard.

Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.

Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!